Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. It's always a good day when we can check in again with, I think, one of the most important thinkers for the church of our lifetime. That's Oz Gannis. He's spoken with us at the Wilberforce weekend during our truth love together events, taught for various short courses, taught for our Colson Fellows,

a highly published author, a social critic.

His bio, I'm just looking at it here, Oz.

Your bio is almost too long to read.

But the key point of it today, and our audience knows you well, is just a congratulations

are in order for a book, one of your first books.

Was it your first book, The Dust of Death?

The first book, yes.

The first book has been republished by InterVarsity Press and chosen as one of their Christian

classic series.

You know, that's quite an accomplishment for your, I just put that together.

I mean, it's great to be in a lineup with C.S. Lewis and, you know, Tolkien and so many others.

This was your first book.

And I was in my 20s.

And when I was at LeBri, they gave me six weeks to write it. That's all.

So, Lebris, they gave me six weeks.

Yeah.

Well, let me give everyone the title, The Dust of Death, the 60s counterculture, and how it changed America forever.

The book is basically trying to trace out the legacy of the 1960s. Obviously, just an incredibly vital

decade in American history, but really even beyond that. And it's interesting, too, that this book,

having, you know, really kind of locking in on the 60s and the legacy that it left on America

to be chosen to be part of the series.

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